citator
citator noun: an index of citations of legal cases and other sources.
Noun
citator (plural citators)
- An index of citations of legal cases and other sources
- A citator will tell you the history and treatment of a case or of a statute or constitutional provision.1980, Robert Stuart Lorch, Democratic Process and Administrative Law, →ISBN, page 70
- One who makes a citation; a citer or citor
- Should the perfon who is summoned conceal himself, letters are written to those among whom he is hid, signifying that he ought to surrender himself at a given time and place ; and if he has taken an asylum in a fortified castle, the citator goes either by night or by day, on foot or on horseback...1797, “Proceedings of the Vhemic or Westphalian Court”, in Annual Register, page 440
Forms of citator
| plural | citators |
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Origin of citator
From Latin citator, agent noun of citare (“to cite”).
Words that rhyme with citator
- translator
- alligator
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- waiter
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- incubator
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- skater
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- collator
- creator
- dictator
- equator
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- greater
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- relator
- rotator
- collimator
- dilator
- excavator
- frater
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- inflater
- locator
- narrator
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- traitor
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- corrugator
- dater
- deflator
- dominator
- emasculator
- glossator
- gyrator
- hater
- hydrator
- legator
- levator
- mandator
- mater
- migrator
- negator
- nitrator
- plaiter
- procreator
- spectator
- tater
- titrator
- 'mater
Questions about citator
- What does citator mean?
- Citator means an index of citations of legal cases and other sources.
- What part of speech is citator?
- Citator is a noun.
- What is the plural of citator?
- The plural of citator is citators.
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